Hair-lock coat-front



'1. MORITZ. I HAIR LOCK COAT FRONT.

APPLICATION FILEI) SEPT. 5. |919.

.1133,92741vl ,l I Patented my 4,1920.

JOHN MORITZ, or LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR-LOCK COAT-FRONT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

Application filed September 5, 1919. Serial No. 321,801.

To all furbo/ait may concer/a:

Be it knownthat l, Jenn Monrrz, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Lebanon, in the county of Lebanon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hair-Lock lCoat-Fronts, of which the following is a specification. 1-

The obl'ect of the invention is to provide an interlining or stiffening element for use in connection with coats and similar' garments and lordinarily referred to in the trade as a coat front employed to maintain the front, armhole, shoulder and neck portions of a coat in proper shape7 wherein the hair cloth used generally as the stiffening element is properly held in place, and the detachment or the working out lof the hairs thereby is prevented while not detracting in any way from the efliciency of the ma'- terial for the purpose Vfor which it is employed. l

With this object in view the invention consists in a construction and'arrangement of parts shown in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that changes in form and proportion may be resorted to without departing from the principles involved.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view of a coat front form or interlining' constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same on the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail section enlarged of the doubled or felled seam and the relation of the padding thereto.

The base of he coat front form or interlining which is indicated at 10 and is usually as in the present instance made of canvas or like material carries a reinforcing member` 11 which may also be of canvas, to

which is joined a stiffening member 12 ofy vhair cloth which may be provided at theVv :front edge with a canvas ory other fabric binding 13 extending along the line of fold between the coat front proper and thelapel 141. said line of fold being indicated at 15.

The stifening member preferably extends from the fold line 15 or a line adjacentthereto to a line 16 indicated by darts in Fig. 1, and at an intermediatepoint said stifening member is folded upon itself to form a felled seam indicated at 17, the line of stitching being shown at 18. Or if preferred-and as shown in Fig. 3 the line of stitching .may be arranged as indicated at 19, or the stitching 19 may be in addition Vto the line of stitching 18 so as to hold the llap or loop of the seam in flat relation to the body portion of the stiffening member.

The padding'ZO, preferably of felt overlaps the inner leaf or wing 21 of the stiffening member andrepresented by that portion which is located in rear of the felled seam, the forward edge of said pad being arranged close to and on a line represented by the fold of the felled or doubled seam as shown clearly in Fig. 3 to the end that the thickness of the padding compensates for the eX- tra thickness of the stiffening member due to the doubling thereof and produces a smooth surface to avoid the appearance of a crease or line on the surface of the outer face or cloth of the garment front.

Obviously the fabric base 10 and the elements carried thereby including the stiffening and reinforcing members and the pad ding may be made of any desired shape to suit the character of the garment to be formed or in connection with which the same is to be used. and said reinforcing and stiffening elements and the padding are securedV to the base by tailor stitching indicated at 22. Also the joint between the forward edge of the padding and the loop of the felled seam is spanned by a line of tailor stitching as indicated at 23 which stitching may extend as shown through to the can- Y vas base 10.

The special advantage of the construction described resides in the fact that the crimp in the hairs forming the body portion `of the hair cloth stiii'ening member serves to positively lock the hairs in the cloth and prevent them from working endwise out of position and hence projecting terminally through the cloth of the suit orgarment as is the common experience where this'form; of stiffening material is employedin connection with garments. The folding of the'fabric on an intermediate line of its width. between the front and rear thereof results in the intermediate anchoring or locking of the hairs and thus prevents endwise displacement thereof.

What is claimed is: Y 1. A coat front form or interlining having a fabric base and astifening member of hair cloth attached theretoi the latter being intermediately doubled or folded to provide a felled seam. I

2. A coat front form or interlining having a fabrio base, a hair Cloth Stiffening member and a. padding Carried by the base7 Said Stiflening member being provided on an ii'itermediate line with a felled seam, and the edge of the padding being arranged to ooineide with said seam.

B. A Coat front form or interlining having a fabric base, a hair Cloth reinforcing member secured to the base and provided on a longitudinal line With a double or fold forming a felled seam, and a padding overlapping the portion of the stiffening member V1n rear of said felled seam and having its forward edge in parallelism and close to Said seam. v

ll. A coat front form or interllmng having a fabric base7 a hair Cloth stifening member secured to the base and provided on a longitudinal line between its front and Y rear edges with a fold'forming a felled seam of which the loop is folded rearwardly over the portion of the member adjacent thereto,

a felt padding overlapping that portion YofV JOHN MORITZ.` i 

